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Jan. 28 | Book Launch: “Looking for Ashley” by Prof. Bromwich
Thursday, January 28, 2016 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- In-person event
- Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Contact
- rebecca.bromwich@carleton.ca
Prof. Rebecca Bromwich launches her new book, Looking for Ashley: Re-reading what the Smith case reveals about the governance of girls, mothers and families in Canada at Lago Grill (1001 Queen Elizabeth Dr.). This book performs a critical discourse analysis of figures of Ashley Smith that emerge in her case, looking at those representations as technologies of governance. It argues that the Smith case is read most accurately not as an isolated system failure but an extreme result of routine, everyday brutality, of a society and bureaucracies’ gradual necropolitical successes.